Advertising postcard map of European Russia, with inset images of a mounted Cossack lancer, a troika, and St. Petersburg.
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"On Friday morning, March 9, the crowds poured into the streets in greater numbers. More bakeries were sacked and again the Cossack patrols appeared, although without their whips, the traditional instrument of mob control in Russia. The crowd, noting this absence, treated the Cossacks cheerfully and parted readily to let them pass. The Cossacks in turn, bantered with the crowd and assured them, 'Don't worry. We won't shoot.'"
On the previous day, International Women's Day, the Russian capital of Petrograd had seen a massive demonstration, many of the marchers women, chanting, 'Give us bread!' Mounted Cossacks, used by Tsar Nicholas II and his predecessors to crush dissent, did not intervene.
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie by Robert K. Massie, pp. 399–400, copyright © 1967, renewed 1995 by Robert K. Massie, publisher: Random House, publication date: 2011
1917-03-09, 1917, March, Petrograd, Cossacks
